Madeleine Brohan by Reutlinger

MADELEINE BROHAN
21 October 1833 - 24 February 1900
French Actress

Madeleine is the daughter of Suzanne Augustine Brohan and the sister of Augustine Brohan. Married Mario Uchard in 1853, and divorced two years later, she was the mistress of Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte and the prince of Joinville, and had a long relationship with Paul Déroulède (whom she had a child)

She entered very young the Conservatory, attended Samson and won a second prize for comedy in 1839 and the first in 1840. She was admitted to the Comédie-Française in 1850. She spent a few years in Russia, where she played the french Saint Petersburg Theatre.